Programme

Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile invites to the 4th edition of VOLIA | ВОЛЯ, our annual open air festival marking Ukraine’s Independence Day.

LIVE MUSIC I FILM SCREENING I EXHIBITIONS I VARIETÉ SHOW I FOOD&DRINKS I DJ-SET

Please join us for a warm summer gathering in the garden of Hotel Continental with live music, performances, visual art, a film screening, DJ-sets and food.

ENTRY: 5€

Program

16:00 Doors and Glasshouse Bar open Food by Monday Kitchen

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Monday Kitchen is an initiative focused on integrating the Ukrainian community in Berlin and representing Ukrainian culture. The project aims to create a space for networking, support young artists, raise funds for charity, and promote Ukrainian traditions through collective cooking, music events, performances, and educational programmes. MK provides a safe space to consume and support Ukrainian culture.

Food served: 19:00 - 22:00

17:00 exhibitions opening

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All life on Earth shares a common ancestor: LUCA, the first single-celled organism. There was a time when oxygen was toxic to life. Yet evolution did not destroy life—it transformed it.

Today, humanity has become a new environment for evolution itself. We expand our memory through technology, extend our bodies with machines, and reshape our own biology. Perhaps Homo sapiens is already evolving into Technosapiens.

At the same time, we are reshaping the planet in our own image, leaving behind plastic, lithium, and other traces of a new geological era. For many species, these changes are catastrophic. For us, they are becoming the new normal.

If life once learned to breathe what was once poison, could it one day learn to live with plastic? Are technology and artificial materials the next stage of evolution—or the point at which evolution begins to turn against itself?

This exhibition offers no answers. Instead, it invites us to reflect on where the boundary lies between evolution and its own transformation.

Technosapiens by Sestry Feldman

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“Places We Carry” Hi5 #6 Group Exhibition

The final exhibition of our successful Hi5-Exhibition Series!

What do we carry with us when we leave a place, when distance separates us from someone we love, or when the world around us no longer feels quite familiar? Here, a place is not simply somewhere we are. It can be something we remember, reinvent, dream of — and carry within us. Between here and elsewhere, we are always making a place of our own.

“Places We Carry” brings together artists exploring the spaces between home and elsewhere, memory and reality, distance and belonging.

Through painting, sculpture, photography, collage and mixed media, the artists transform fragments of everyday life, cultural memory, personal objects and imagination into new landscapes of belonging.

Artists: aakyse, Kihod, vertwen, Bettina Preysler, bekasowa.khodas

18:00 Varieté Show (curated by Bez.lich)

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The young creatice community Bez.lich will present a special one-hour show programme bringing together the most vibrant and relevant musical acts and performances created by their artists throughout the year. The Bez.lich Variety Show will showcase the diversity of our artists and introducing the festival audience to the creative energy and atmosphere of the Bezlich community

Bezlich is a creative community that brings together young Ukrainian artists in Berlin. Musicians, directors, dancers and actors come together to create new projects and bring their ideas to life. What makes Bezlich special is its openness: anyone with talent and a desire to create can become part of the community.

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IMLA (Improvisation Laboratory) is an evolving platform dedicated to improvisation as an artistic, collective, and research-based practice. Bringing together musicians, sound artists, and interdisciplinary performers, the project explores improvisation not only as spontaneous musical creation, but as a method of listening, interaction, decision-making, and shared knowledge production.

The project creates a space where participants investigate and articulate their individual approaches to improvisation while engaging in collective artistic processes. Through live music performance IMLA focuses both on artistic outcome and on the process itself: how sound emerges in real time, how performers negotiate intuition and structure, and how collective artistic languages are formed.

For Volia Festival, Imla presents a one-hour improvised performance for an ensemble of musicians, built around a solo cello and a graphic score. 

20:00 Yo! Yo! Film Screening by Sestry Feldman

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What does the future look like when humans and AI learn to live side by side? Can technology become emotional? Will our homes, cities and relationships change? Special screening of thr animated project YO! YO! in Berlin by Sestry Feldman.Artist Talk after the screening-

Sestry Feldman is an artist duo consisting of twin sisters Mishel and Nicol Feldman, who are two of the most recognized street artists and muralists in Kyiv, Ukraine. Their art exhibitions were held in Kyiv, Berlin, Paris, Prague, Tel Aviv and New York.

21:00 Hennadii Boichenko Quartett

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As a band, Hennadii Boichenko Quartet at the beginning of our journey, which started in early 2026. Most of the band members are from Ukraine, where they’re already established as solo artists, and have come together in Berlin. Currently, the band mainly plays music from the repertoire of Hennadii Boichenko as well as selected original compositions. Musically, styles vary from modern jazz to dark jazz, fusion, and funk.

Musicians:

Hennadii Boichenko – keyboards, synthesizer / Indirect, Potreba, Potreba Group, Neue Post / UA

Mykola Lebed – tenor saxophone, loops / Machukha, solo artist / UA

Ihor Biriuchenko – drums / Lazy Jesus, Stoned Jesus / UA

Jakob Zimmer-Harwood – bass / solo artist / DE

21:30 Igoistick & Axtlkh

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Igoistick and Axtlkh are a Berlin-based duo blending experimental jazz and hip-hop.

Pianist and composer Oleksandr Talakh and drummer and sound producer Ihor Biriuchenko are two musicians from Ukraine who met in Berlin and merged their visions into a powerful live project: groovy chords, rhythmic density, and total freedom from clichés.

22:30  DJ-Set Silent Disco

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Regular classes and workshops at Hotel Continental

STUDIO UKRAINE

Open Sewing Workshops

Every Wednesday from 18:00 - 21:00 our Craft Space is open for your creativity: Join us for exploring the world of textile and the creative techniques it has on offer.

Participation is free.

Donations for materials are welcome.

For inquiries, please contact Kateryna Serbinova

STUDIO UKRAINE

Open Sketching Classes

Art classes for everyone: We offer weekly sketching sessions with live models to improve your artistic skills, to join other artists and amateurs and to explore the magic of the human body.

Participation is free.

Donations for materials are welcome.

Every Tuesday and Friday, 19:00 - 21:00

Conference Room or Craft Space

For inquiries, please contact Kateryna Serbinova

BERLINER OPPORTUNE

International Choir

Berliner Opportune is an international amateur choir based in Berlin. Open to all without auditions. We believe in music as a space for connection, expression, and collective growth.

Every Thursday, 19:00 - 21:00

Conference Room

For inquiries, please contact via instagram